GRECO JOHN

Ernest Sosa and His Critics

Herausgeber: Greco, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book devoted to the work of Ernest Sosa, one of the most influential contemporary epistemologists. In it, a group of distinguished philosophers critically assess Sosa's contribution to debates on virtue epistemology, foundationalism, externalism, and metaphysics. The volume also includes Sosa's own reply to his critics, in which he clarifies and develops the central themes of his philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 331
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780631217992
• ISBN-10: 0631217991
• Artikelnr.: 21366495

Autorenporträt

John Greco is Associate Professor at Fordham University. He is the author of Putting Skeptics in Their Place (2000) and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999). He has published numerous journal articles in the field of epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

Cited Works by Ernest Sosa.

Preface.

Introduction: Motivations for Sosa's Epistemology: JohnGreco (Fordham University).

CRITICAL ESSAYS.

Epistemology.

1. Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Power: Robert Audi(University of Notre Dame).

2. Structure and Connection: Comments on Ernest Sosa'sEpistemology: Stewart Cohen (Arizona State University).

3. Sosa, Safety, Sensitivity, and Skeptical Hypotheses: KeithDeRose (Yale University).

4. Foundational Justification: Richard Feldman (University ofRochester).

5. A Trial Separation Between the Theory of Knowledge and theTheory of Justified Belief: Richard Foley (New YorkUniversity).

6. Achieving Epistemic Ascent: Richard Fumerton (University ofIowa).

7. Sosa on Reflective Knowledge and Virtue Perspectivism: AlvinGoldman (Rutgers University).

8. How to Preserve Your Virtue while Losing Your Perspective:John Greco (Fordham University).

9. Sosa on Circularity and Coherence: Allen Habib and KeithLehrer (both University of Arizona).

10. Skepticism: Ascent and Assent?: Peter Klein (RutgersUniversity).

11. Sosa on Animal and Human Knowledge: Hilary Kornblith(University of Massachuessetts, Amherst).

12. Skepticism Undone?: Paul Moser (Loyola University,Chicago).

13. Sosa and Epistemic Justification: Nicholas Rescher(University of Pittsburgh).

14. Perceptual Knowledge and Epistemological Satisfaction: BarryStroud (University of California, Berkeley).

15. Mythology of the Given: Sosa, Sellars and the Task ofEpistemology: Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University).

16. Epistemic Value Monism: Linda Zagzebski (University ofOklahoma).

Metaphysics.

17. Sosa on Realism: William P. Alston (SyracuseUniversity).

18. Reference and Subjectivity: Bill Brewer (OxfordUniversity).

19. Sosa's Existential Relativism: Eli Hirsch (BrandeisUniversity).

20. Sosa on Internal Realism and Conceptual Relativity: HilaryPutnam (Harvard University).

21. On What There is Now: Sosa on Two forms of Relativity: JamesVan Cleve (Brown University).

22. Sosa on Abilities, Concepts and Externalism: TimothyWilliamson (Oxford University).

REPLIES.

Replies: Ernest Sosa (Brown University).

Index

Rezensionen

"Anyone interested in developments in epistemology over the past 50years cannot ignore Sosa's work, and the discussions heremake possible a fuller appreciation and understanding ofSosa's achievements and place in recent epistemology."Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"This is an excellent collection of essays. It illuminatesnot only Sosa's philosophical work, but also a large part ofcontemporary epistemology."

Anil Gupta, University ofPittsburgh

"In conclusion, it seems that Sosa's virtue epistemology offersa promising line in solving some perennial problems. It overcomessome important deficiences of its predecessors, and at the sametime integrates some advantages of the old paradigms." MarinaBakalova, Central European University